‘Abstract Endangerment’, Two Harm Principles, and Two Routes to Criminalisation

<p>We need to distinguish, as theorists too often fail to distinguish, two distinct harm principles. One, the Harmful Conduct Principle, concerns the criminalisation of conduct that is itself harmful or dangerous: that principle cannot explain how we can have good reason to create offences of...

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Main Authors: R.A. Duff, S.E. Marshall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bergen 2015-12-01
Series:Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Online Access:https://boap.uib.no/index.php/BJCLCJ/article/view/905